http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/11686 2021-03-24T03:52:36Z info:eu-repo/semantics/descriptiveMetadata http://oar.icrisat.org/11686/ Conventional and Molecular Breeding Approaches for Biofortification of Pearl Millet Govindaraj, M Yadav, O P Srivastava, R K Gupta, S K Plant Genetics Pearl Millet Biofortification Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] is an essential diet of more than 90 million people in the semi-arid tropics of the world where droughts and low fertility of soils cause frequent failures of other crops. It is an important nutri-rich grain cereal in the drier regions of the world grown on 26 mha by millions of farmers (IFAD 1999; Yadav and Rai 2013). This makes pearl millet the sixth most important crop in the world and fourth most important food crop of the India, next to rice, wheat, and maize with annual cultivation over an area of ~8 mha. Pearl millet is also primary food crop in sub-Saharan Africa and is grown on 15 mha (Yadav and Rai 2013). The significant increase in productivity of pearl millet in India is attributed to development and adoption of hybrids of early to medium duration maturity. More than 120 diverse hybrids/varieties have been released till date for various production environments. The heterosis breeding and improved crop management technologies increased productivity substantially achieving higher increased production of 9.80 mt in 2016–2017 from 2.60 mt in 1950–1951 in spite of declined of area under the crop by 20–30% over last two decades (Yadav et al. 2012). Springer Qureshi, Asif M. Iqbal Ahmad Dar, Zahoor Hussain Wani, Shabir 2019-02 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://oar.icrisat.org/11686/1/Conventional%20and%20molecular%20breeding%20approaches%20for%20biofortification%20of%20p....pdf Govindaraj, M and Yadav, O P and Srivastava, R K and Gupta, S K (2019) Conventional and Molecular Breeding Approaches for Biofortification of Pearl Millet. In: Quality Breeding in Field Crops. Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 85-107. ISBN 978-3-030-04608-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04609-5_4 doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04609-5_4 info:eu-repo/semantics/objectFile info:eu-repo/semantics/humanStartPage